The I Ching is prominent in The Man in the High Castle; having diffused it as part of their cultural hegemony overlordship of the Pacific Coast U.S., the Japanese—and some American—characters consult it, and then act per its replies to their queries. Specifically, The Man in the High Castle, Hawthorne Abendsen, himself, used it to write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, and, at storys end, in his presence, Juliana Frink, queries the I Ching: Why did it write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? and What is the reader to learn from the novel? The I Ching replies with Hexagram 61 ([中孚] zhōng fú) Chung Fu, Inner Truth, describing the true state of the world—every character in The Man in the High Castle is living a false reality. By implication, so is everyone in our current reality where Britain declined and the US became supreme.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:12:11 +0000
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